The referral tool clinicians actually love

Refer any patient to any service in under 2 minutes safely, securely, and without the faff.

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Smarter Referrals

Built by NHS clinicians to fix what frustrates NHS clinicians

Super simple referrals

Complete a referral in less than 2 minutes. No more searching for the right form, bookmarks, faxes, or scanned PDFs.

Safer processes

Safety-netting is built in. Clinicians see up-to-date guidance, mandatory fields, and receive alerts to reduce patient risk.

Instant patient messages

Patients are notified of referral steps in plain English, via SMS, WhatsApp, or email—sent securely from your Trust.

Real-time oversight

Automatically tracks referral trends, flags bottlenecks and prevents care delays. EARL gives managers and ICSs the visibility they’ve never had.

Referrals without borders

Refer to any service, in the world in under 2 minutes.

With EARL, every referral starts the same way—one simple, NHS-integrated portal. Referrals take under a minute and are safety-monitored to ensure they’re delivered, read on time, and automatically escalated if they’re not.

The result? Clinicians move faster, referrals land first time, and patients get where they need to be, quicker.

And yes – you really can refer to any pathway in the world!

Built for integrated care

With EARL, clinicians can refer patients to any service—across departments, Trusts or ICSs—without barriers. It makes truly connected, integrated care not just possible, but effortless.

Instant setup, zero red tape

New pathways are added in days, not months. EARL’s team handles the onboarding, so services don’t need IT projects or contracts to join the network.

More than just a faster form

Transforming the whole pathway—without trying

When referrals are instant and effortless, everything else improves. Clinicians move faster. Quality goes up. Bottlenecks go down. And services that were once underused suddenly get the patients they’re designed to help.

Designed for both ends of the pathway

Receiving services can use EARL too (if they want to)

Receiving services don’t need to log in. EARL delivers referrals however they choose—email, system integration, SMS, automated call or letter. But if they do use EARL, they get much more.

EARL integrates all referral routes into one live dashboard, enabling services to triage, stream, onwardly refer and manage workload in one place. Admin overhead drops dramatically, freeing staff for higher-value work. Triage becomes faster, safer and more consistent.

EARL Electronic Referrals